- the ma price values are on global scope, they are made once and not calculated live as you may be expecting - the bool functions both have 2 returns in the same order with no condition if it's true or false - the below would be used in ontick, ...

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- the copyx stuff still had a different tf in it than the chart tf, so it is requesting data from outside the current chart, which has to be already present/ downloaded, ie behaving like a timeseries function for a different symbol and/or tf than ...

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Posting here as well for those interested, attached is an example indicator

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- lookback candles is not used that way, it's not mentioned in the documentation, but commonly mt4/5 developers will use the quantity of lookback, to refer to how many previous candles are required to be calculated for some condition at a candle, eg ...

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Alerts are sent for new lines found, for swing highs/lows, the live candle is not included.

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- you're still using itime() with a different tf to the chart tf, only if the tf is the same as the chart or the data has already been collected, will there be no delay - the itime() functions are not looping with the loop, the shift values are ...

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I had it running for a while with some ma's on it, no issue came up (though there is an issue with the ma values in mtf being live and not staircase). Unless I can recreate the issue there is nothing to go on.

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You would not notice any difference in either 4/5 when using predefined arrays inside oncalc, or timeseries functions for the current sym/tf. The 2 indicators also work differently, the mt4 indicator only uses the chart candle times and decides on ...

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SR_Equal_HL - v1.1 - finds equal high and lows within a point margin - full alerts

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Is the picture of the experts tab just on loading or when it has already stopped working?

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You're still not giving enough information. What happens when you switch chart tfs, reload the indicator, is there anything in the experts tab, just saying its not working isn't enough.

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Yes, but that is not to say that timeseries functions are bad, just that other symbol/tf (which are settings to the function) data has to be physically downloaded first, whereas the predefined stuff is already present as what you see on the chart. - ...

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Oh that's why you had the objectcreation bit, had nothing to do with the input section. The object hline is a full chart width horizontal line, there is no time start/end coord for it, only price, replace it with trendline to be able to give it ...

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Looks like chatgpt, it can't currently make reliable mt4/mt5 codes. Because that's the values you're giving it to draw to. iMA returns a handle number to the array that holds the ma values, you can see this in the data window when you drag the ...

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Technically, mt5 is faster, I prefer mt4 though. There are 2 ways you can refer to timeprice data, either through predefined arrays available in the parameters of oncalc, ie time[], high[], or with predefined arrays like Time[], High[] (the capital ...

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Need an example of this, what do I do to recreate the issue?

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What do you mean by "limit the length"? In oninit you can check that the inputted string length is less than a number, by getting it's length via stringlen(). If you mean to limit the length of characters the user can manually type in, while they ...

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This ea requires the indicator "Slope Direction Line". This is the same issue as the previous indicator you posted, in the future when some ea or indicator doesn't load or function as you expect, first check the experts tab of the terminal to see if ...

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Interesting, I'll have it as raw counts for each, and 2 ranges of candles. Post is updated.

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The ma filter is a basic option available for you to use. That is purely up to you and what you see fit. The general purpose of ma filter is to align high signal counts with a basic definition of trend, via some ma, so the settings of the ma should ...

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